Shelfmark
MS 259
Author
Title
A ballad for a boy. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, April, 1885.
Physical description
1 bifolium ; 23 cm x 18 cm.
Note
The poem was first published in Ionica in 1891. This manuscript has a number of textual variants from the printed version.
Note
At the bottom of the verso: Abbey Garden Westminster April 1885.
Note
Autograph manuscript.
Citation/references note
Manuscript note in MS 932 (interleaved copy of James catalogue).
Provenance
With a letter to the Headmaster headed The Hill House, Ewelme, Oxford, dated 19 October 1954 and signed by Simon Nowell Smith recording the donation of the manuscript to Eton College.
Genre/Form
Poems
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52661